I've been looking at the Mozilla Open Badges initiative lately, as a way to improve engagement with a particular site or Blog. My idea is that you could assign a set of earnable badges to a particular page of a site, perhaps different ones on different pages, and present the opportunity to earn one by answering a few questions - using the Open badges infrastructure to store the badges earned. Here's the beginnings of a page specific badge earning widget with quiz data served up by google apps script.

"For all you people who get round to loading your GAS libraries and snippets onto Github (since made a lot easier thanks to +Bruce Mcpherson and his GasGit) I've just noticed that the code editor in Github now recognises .gs files as JavaScript, rather than Gosu, so we don't have to rename them all to .js files." +Andrew Roberts

"This is a case study illustrating the use of Google Apps Script to drive Finance Change. The application allows businesses to efficiently manage their expenses saving on processing time and reducing mileage fraud. "

"You can get all your apps scripts, libraries and dependencies up to git hub and documented automatically with this apps script project. No need for local files as everything happens on drive, and no need for local git software or any particular OS as it all happens with the github API." - Bruce MacPherson

" This afternoon I was asked if I could put together a list of my favorite Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons. In the past I had put together lists of Sheets scripts, but most of those lists are outdated as Add-ons have mostly replaced scripts. Here's my updated list of my favorite Google Docs, Sheets and Forms Add-ons."

Mandy Waite "A new tutorial for doing real-time logs analysis with with Fluentd and Google BigQuery. Covers the following steps (requires some billable components of Google Cloud Platform): - Run an nginx web server in a Google Compute Engine instance. - Log browser traffic to that server using Fluentd. - Query the logged data using the BigQuery web UI and using Google Apps Script from a Google Spreadsheet. - Visualize the query results in a chart within a Google Spreadsheet that automatically refreshes."

"Back in November 2014, we announced that older spreadsheets (those created prior to Dec 2013, including any subsequent copies) would start being gradually migrated to the new version of Google Sheets for Google Apps domains on the Rapid release track, with Scheduled domains to follow

...Simpler spreadsheets will be upgraded first, while those that use Apps Script and more complex features will be migrated weeks to months later to ensure a seamless transition."

A question came in on the Google Apps Script Google+ Community which in part was asking about parsing .csv files into a Google Sheet. I initially pointed the asker to some dated documentation so for my penance I've updated it.

"Debbie and John take it to the next level with Google Apps Script. With Apps Script, you can create add-ons for Google Sheets, Docs, or Forms, automate your workflow, integrate with external APIs, and more."

"Introducing inactiveAccountInventory - a very simple Add-on for GAFE domain admins to identify users who just aren't logging in! This Add-on was primarily built to help schools serving high-needs student populations identify and intervene around inequities in student account usage."

"In the 2015 kick off episode (http://goo.gl/oAzBN9) of the Launchpad Online developer video series (http://goo.gl/kFMUa6), Google engineer +wesley chun shows you how to connect to Google Maps from a spreadsheet! This isn't a party trick... you’ll learn how to do this, why it may be something useful to consider, and have real working code by the time you’re done. In an earlier video (http://goo.gl/1sXeuD), we introduced viewers to Google Apps Script (http://developers.google.com/apps-script), our cloud-based #JavaScript environment giving developers access to Google Apps data as well as other Google services. In this sequel, we'll take your skills to the next level, creating a map based on a street address in a Google Sheet. And maybe, if you hang in till the end, we'll have an surprise bonus for you!"

"A few weeks ago, the Google Sheets team introduced improved control over protected sheets and ranges. Developers have told us they're looking for the same power in Google Apps Script — after all, ever since we added data validation to the Spreadsheet service, programmatic control over protected ranges has been the most popular request on the Apps Script issue tracker.

Today, we are excited to give you that granular control.

With the new Protection class in the Spreadsheet service, your scripts can touch every aspect of range or sheet protection, just like in the new UI. (The older PageProtection class, which had more limited features, will be deprecated, but will stick around in case you need to work with older spreadsheets. The new Protection class only applies to the newer version of Sheets.)"

Adding metadata to Google Docs will require a little Google Apps Script programming, but the result is a small application that allows you to add metadata to documents. These metadata will make finding documents easier.

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